Simon Rowland-Jones (born 1950) is a

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, composer, and music editor. He is best known for his arrangement of the

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Cello Suites The six Cello Suites, BWV 1007–1012, are suites for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). They are some of the most frequently performed solo compositions ever written for cello. Bach most likely composed them during the ...

for Viola, which is widely praised as one of the best scholarly editions of the work for viola. He has taught at the

Malmö Academy of Music Malmö Academy of Music (Swedish: Musikhögskolan i Malmö) is a Swedish public collage dedicated to education and research within the fields of music and music pedagogy. The school is located in Malmö in southern Sweden and belongs to the Facul ...

in Sweden, the

Royal College of Music The Royal College of Music is a music school, conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the Undergraduate education, undergraduate to the Doctorate, doctoral level in a ...

, the

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, the

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and the

Yehudi Menuhin School The Yehudi Menuhin School is a specialist music school in Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey, England, founded in 1963 by violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin. The current director of music is the British classical pianist Ashley Wass. The school is one ...

. He studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School, and later with

Bruno Giuranna Bruno Giuranna (born 6 April 1933 in Milan) is an Italian violist. Giuranna was also responsible for a transcription of Bach's Goldberg Variations. The world premiere recording of this work was made by the Trio Broz in 2008. Bruno Giuranna was ...

at the Academia de Santa Cecila in Rome. He was the founding violist of the

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, and has also recorded several albums as a soloist.

Selected works

* ''Four Phases'' for violin solo (1979) * ''Serenade'' for 10 winds (double wind quintet) (1979) * ''Seven Pieces'' for viola solo (1979) * Sonata for piano (1981) * String Quartet (1993)

Sources

Bio, Meridian Record Label Website (Retrieved Sept 16, 2006)
1950 births Living people English classical violists English composers Academics of the Royal College of Music Place of birth missing (living people) {{violist-stub